Effective August 15, 2024

 

MH Alliance LLC, in conjunction with its associated entities (collectively referred to as “MHA” or the “Company”), is committed to facilitating a global energy transition. Our mission is to equip nations with cost-effective and plentiful fuel and fertilizer from alternative energy sources, such as Natural Gas from Methane Hydrates (NGMH), using our patented innovations Resonance Electromagnetic Hydrate Methane (REHM) and ongoing research in Applied Refrigerant Control Systems (ARCS). In doing so, we aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions significantly.

 

To fulfill this mission, we may require certain personal information from you. We approach this necessity with the utmost seriousness, fully acknowledging the significance of privacy and your rights. Our goal is to ensure that you can confidently engage with our services and interact with us. We aspire for you to appreciate the company as much as we do. However, if you disagree with this privacy policy, we request that you refrain from accessing or using our website.

 

The sections below contain the information you may want to know about this topic. We’ve tried to make them as straightforward as possible, but we realize it’s a lot of information. If you still have any questions, please reach out to us via email.

 

Introduction

This Privacy Notice (hereinafter referred to as the “Notice”) outlines the practices of the Company and its affiliates (collectively referred to as the “Company”, “we”, or “us”) with respect to the collection, utilization, and disclosure of your Personal Data. In this document, we employ certain definitions to elucidate various products, roles, and pertinent terms:

• The term “Website” encompasses all text, data, information, software, graphics, photographs, and other materials that we and our affiliates may make accessible to you, in addition to our websites and any services, extensions, plug-ins, software, or mobile applications we may offer.

• “Members” refers to individuals who have established an account or participated in the Company’s events.

• “Invitees” denotes individuals who have arranged an event or a meeting with a member but may not necessarily be registered with the Company.

• A “Viewer” is an individual who visits the Website, irrespective of whether they are a member or invitee.

• “Personal Data” signifies any data pertaining to an identified or identifiable natural person that is processed by MHA as delineated in this Privacy Notice, provided such information is safeguarded as “personal data”, “personal information”, or a similar term under the applicable data protection laws.

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Applicability

This Privacy Notice is applicable to the Personal Data that the Company collects when you access or utilize our Website, as detailed in the “Information We Collect” section of this Privacy Notice. The Company serves as the controller of this Personal Data. However, this Privacy Notice does not extend to Personal Data encompassed within Membership Data (as defined in your agreement with the Company), such as information a Member gathers about an Invitee when the latter schedules a meeting or an event using our services. We process Personal Data within Membership Data on behalf of our Memberships, acting as a processor or service provider. If you are an Invitee and have inquiries about how our Memberships process your data, or if you wish to exercise your rights concerning that data, you are required to contact the Member who obtained your information. Suppose you contact us regarding Personal Data within Membership Data and can identify the Company or Member with whom you have interacted. In that case, we will promptly inform the relevant membership that collected your data about your inquiry.

 

Information We Collect

We gather information about you both directly and automatically through your utilization of our Website. In an effort to safeguard you and your information, we advise you to provide and collect only the necessary information for using our Website. For instance, to arrange a meeting or an event, the requisite information includes names, email addresses, date, and time. Please be aware that if you opt not to share certain Personal Data with us, or decline certain contact permissions, we may be unable to deliver certain aspects of the Services.

 

Our Company does not target children under the age of thirteen (13), and we do not intentionally collect personal Data from children below this age. If we ascertain that a child under 13 has supplied us with Personal Data, we will expeditiously remove such Personal Data from our systems. For educational service providers and schools, please see our FERPA and COPPA Privacy Policy and Notice

 

Information You Provide

The Company amasses the following categories of information, either directly from Members, Invitees, or Viewers, or indirectly through third parties pertaining to Members, Invitees, or Viewers:

• Appointment Information: Members may voluntarily provide us with specific information when arranging and coordinating appointments. This may encompass names, email addresses, phone numbers, email addresses of other individuals and/or Invitees, the subject of the meeting, and any additional information a Member provides or accumulates upon scheduling, in accordance with the Company’s Terms of Use or a contract executed with the Company. The Company processes the information an Invitee furnishes to a Member when scheduling with the Member on the Member’s behalf, acting as a processor or service provider.

 

• Information Received from Third Parties: If you opt to link your account with a third-party service, we may obtain or be granted access to information from such third-party service, including Personal Information. You can cease sharing your information from a third-party service with us by revoking our access to that service. MHA processes that information on the Member’s behalf as a processor or service provider.

 

• Account and Billing Information: Members supply the Company with certain information, including name, email address, Member name, and password, when setting up an account. If you subscribe to services or purchase products from the Company, our third-party payment processors will collect and store your billing address and credit card information. We retain the last four digits of your credit card number, card type, and the expiration date.

 

• Chatbot Data: If you interact with our virtual chatbot, we will collect the information you provide during the chat, including transcripts of your conversation with the chatbot.

 

• Marketing Information: Members, Invitees, or Viewers interested in the Company’s services may reach out to us through forms available on the Website and voluntarily provide information such as name, work email, phone number, company, and role. Members, Invitees, or Viewers interested in our newsletter may also submit their name and email addresses to join our mailing list. We also receive other similar information provided by you if you participate in an event hosted by the Company or its partners (such as webinars) and in your interactions with our social media accounts.

 

Information Collected Automatically From You

We, along with our authorized third parties, employ Cookies, pixels, web beacons, and other technologies to receive and store specific types of information when you interact with us via your computer or mobile device. This is subject to your consent, opt-out preferences, or other appropriate legal basis where legally required. The utilization of these technologies enables us to personalize your experience with our Website, enhance your experience, customize marketing messages, and assist us in detecting and preventing fraud and security risks. Here is a more detailed explanation of the types of information we collect:

 

• Log & Device Data: When you use the Company’s website, we and our authorized third parties may automatically record certain information, referred to as “log data”, which includes information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Website. This log data may encompass the web address you originated from or are navigating to, your device model, operating system, browser type, unique device identifier, IP address, mobile network carrier, and time zone or approximate location. The extent of information we collect often depends on the type of device you’re using and its settings. For instance, different types of information are available depending on whether you’re using a Mac or PC, or an iPhone or an Android phone. To learn more about what information your device makes available to us, please review the policies of your device manufacturer or software provider.

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• Cookie Data: Subject to your consent, opt-out preferences, or other appropriate legal basis where legally required, we and our authorized third parties may use “Cookies” (a small text file sent by your computer each time you visit our Website, unique to your MHA account or your browser) or similar technologies to record log data. When we use Cookies, we may use ‘session’ Cookies (that last until you close your browser) or ‘persistent’ Cookies (that last until you or your browser deletes them). For example, we may use Cookies to keep you logged into the Company’s systems. Some of the Cookies we use are associated with your account with the Company (including Personal Data about you, such as the email address you provided us), and other Cookies are not. The Company provides a centralized cookie management service across the entire Company’s website & applications. You can find the link to manage your cookie preferences at the bottom of the Company homepage when you access our website for the first time. If you decide to change cookie settings during subsequent visits, you may have to remove our website from your browser’s cache and re-initiate a new session by visiting our website again.

 

• Usage Data: When you use our platform either as a Member or an Invitee, we and our authorized third parties collect certain information about how you use the platform. For example, we collect information on the meeting types our Members use most often, and how many meetings are scheduled each day. We aggregate this information and use it to help us monitor and improve the Services, such as to determine which features are most popular amongst our Members, and which features could be added or improved.

 

• Third-Party Tools: We may disclose information to third parties or allow third parties to directly collect information using these technologies on our Website, such as social media companies, advertising networks, companies that provide analytics including ad tracking and reporting, security providers, and others that help us operate our business and Website. We use such third-party tools subject to your consent, opt-out preferences, or other appropriate legal basis where legally required. For example, we use third-party Service Providers such as Google Analytics to provide certain analytics and Viewer interactions services to MHA in connection with our operation of our Website, including the collection and tracking of certain data and information regarding the characteristics and activities of visitors to MHA. You may opt-out of relevant cookies using opt-out features on their respective websites. To learn how Google Analytics collects and processes data, please visit: “How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps” located at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners. We also use session replay tools provided by a third party to record your interactions with our Website, such as how you move throughout our Website and engage with our webforms. In addition to analytics, this information helps us improve our Website, our marketing activities, and identify and fix technical issues visitors may be having with our Website. Where available, you may opt-out of relevant cookies and other tracking technologies using opt-out features on their respective websites.

 

Certain third-party tools may not be opted out of and are essential to our service. For example, MHA may implement Google reCAPTCHA Enterprise or similar tools to help prevent spam and abuse. reCAPTCHA Enterprise collects hardware and software information, such as device and application data, and sends it to Google for purposes of providing, maintaining, and improving reCAPTCHA Enterprise and for general security purposes. This information is not used by Google for personalized advertising. Your use of reCAPTCHA Enterprise is subject to Google’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.

 

 

How We Use Your Information

We may utilize the information we gather about you, including Personal Data, for the following purposes:

• Provision of the MHA Website Service: Your information will be used to provide our Website services to you. This includes facilitating meetings, creating and managing your account, responding to your inquiries, addressing service errors, security or technical issues, analyzing and monitoring usage, preventing spam, fraud, and abuse on the Website, and for other Membership service and support purposes. The payment information you provide to us will be used to notify you of past, current, and upcoming charges, to present the billing history to you on your billing page on the Website, and to perform internal financial processes, such as examining the status of a credit card charge. In the event of a credit card dispute, we may also share account information with your bank to verify the legitimacy of a charge. For EU/UK purposes, our legal bases for processing are performance of a contract and legitimate interests.

 

• Understanding and Improving Our Products and Services: We will conduct research and analysis about your use of, or interest in, our products, services, or content, or products, services or content offered by others. This helps us improve our existing products and develop new ones.

 

• Communication with You:

  • Service-related Communications: We may send you service and administrative emails to ensure the service is functioning properly. We will also email you regarding your upcoming events. These messages are considered part of the service and you may not opt out of these messages. For EU/UK purposes, our legal basis for processing is performance of a contract.

  • Promotional: Subject to your opt-out preference and subscription, we may send you emails about new product features or other news about MHA or on topics we think would be relevant to you. You may opt out of receiving these communications at any time. For “MHA Invitees, please be assured that we do not use the email addresses that you enter to schedule a meeting with a “MHA Member to send any type of direct marketing. However, you may receive marketing communications if you have used the same email address to sign up for them previously or to manage your account as a MHA Member. For EU/UK purposes, our legal basis for processing is consent.

  • Responding to Your Requests: We will also use your information to respond to your questions or comments. For EU/UK purposes, our legal bases for processing are performance of a contract, legitimate interests and/or compliance with a legal obligation.

  • Administrative: We may contact you to inform you about changes in your services, our service offering and other important service-related notices, such as changes to the Notice or about security or fraud notices. For EU/UK purposes, our legal basis for processing are performance of a contract, legitimate interests and/or compliance with a legal obligation.

 

• Protecting Rights and Interests: We will use your information to protect our rights and interests as well as the rights and interests of our Members and any other person, as well as to enforce this Notice or our Terms of Use. For EU/UK purposes, our legal basis for processing is legitimate interests.

 

• Legal Compliance: We may use your information to comply with applicable legal or regulatory obligations, including complying with requests from law enforcement or other governmental authorities, or in legal proceedings involving MHA. For EU/UK purposes, our legal basis for processing is compliance with a legal obligation.

 

• Other: We may also use your information to manage our business or perform functions as otherwise described to you at the time of collection subject to your consent where legally required. For EU/UK purposes, our legal basis for processing is consent.

 

 

With Whom We May Share Your Information

We may disseminate information we amass about you, including Personal Data, in the following manners:

• With Third-Party Service Providers, Agents, Contractors, or Government Entities: We engage other companies, agents, or contractors, referred to as “Service Providers”, to render services on our behalf or to assist us with the provision of services and communication with you. We may enlist Service Providers to process credit card transactions or other payment methods. We may also enlist Service Providers to offer services such as monitoring and developing MHA services; assisting in communications, infrastructure, and IT services; Membership service; analyzing and enhancing data. These Service Providers may have access to your Personal Data or other information to perform these functions. Additionally, some of the types of information that we request, as listed above, may be collected by third-party Service Providers on our behalf. Microsoft is one of MHA's Service Providers. You may review Microsoft’s Privacy statement here.

 

We may disseminate information with Service Providers and government entities for legal, security, and safety purposes. This includes sharing information to enforce policies or contracts, address security breaches, and assist in the investigation of fraud, security issues, or other concerns.

 

We mandate Service Providers to agree to take reasonable steps to secure the Personal Data that we provide to them. We do not authorize them to use or disclose your Personal Data except in connection with providing their services.

 

• Affiliates: We may disclose information to current or future affiliates or subsidiaries for purposes consistent with this Privacy Notice.

 

• Government Entities: We may share your data if we believe that disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, legal, or governmental request; to respond to a subpoena, court order, warrant, or other legal process; to enforce applicable Terms of Use or this Notice, including investigation of potential violations thereof; to protect the safety, rights, or property of the public, any person, or MHA; to detect, prevent, or otherwise address, security or technical issues, illegal, or suspected illegal activities (including fraud); or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved, as part of a judicial or regulatory proceeding. In this process, MHA is committed to maintaining individuals’ privacy, and all such disclosures are carefully reviewed to ensure their legitimacy, and if disclosure is required, that only the necessary information is provided or that the request is challenged accordingly. Unless prohibited by law, MHA will inform you of a government request it has received.

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• Authorized Agents: If you are using MHA as a paid member of an organization or using your organization’s email domain (thereby representing yourself as a member of the organization), we may share your email address, plan information, and data within your account with an authorized agent of your company upon your company’s request for them to administer the account for the company.

 

 

Your Rights and Choices

Depending on your association with MHA, you may exercise your rights and preferences in the following manners:

• E-mail: As previously mentioned, if you prefer not to receive promotional emails from us, you have the option to opt out at any time by following the opt-out link contained within the email itself. Please be aware that it may take up to ten (10) days to process your request. Also, please note that if you opt out of receiving marketing communications from us, we may continue to send you service-related emails, which are not available for opt-out. If you do not wish to receive any service-related emails from us, you have the option to delete your account.

 

• Cookies: You also have the option to withhold or withdraw your consent for Cookies via your browser settings. Your browser’s help function should contain instructions on how to configure your computer to accept all Cookies, to notify you when a Cookie is issued, or to not receive Cookies at any time. Please bear in mind that certain Cookies are necessary to authenticate Members as well as perform some actions within MHA (such as to pay for an event as an Invitee via MHA), so to use the Website, some strictly necessary Cookies are required. You may also manage the use of targeting, performance, and functional cookies on this website by clicking the Cookie Settings link located on the footer of this page.

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• Third-Party Analytics and Advertising Services: Some of the Service Providers we use offer the ability to opt-out.

 

• Google Analytics: You have the option to opt out of Google Analytics’ services using the Opt-Out feature on their website. The Google Analytics service is provided by Google Inc. You can opt-out from Google Analytics service from using your information by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser tool. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page.

 

• Facebook Pixel: You have the option to opt out of Facebook Pixel’s services using their opt-out feature. For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit their Data Policy.

 

 

Additional Rights

Depending on your place of residence, you may be entitled to the following rights, subject to any applicable exemptions or limitations:

• The Right to Know and Access Your Personal Data: This includes the categories of Personal Data we have collected, the sources of Personal Data, the purposes of collection, and how we used, disclosed, sold, or shared Personal Data.

• The Right to Correct Inaccurate Personal Data: You have the right to correct any inaccurate Personal Data that we maintain about you.

• The Right to Delete Your Personal Data: You can request the deletion of your Personal Data under specific circumstances.

• The Right to Opt Out of the Sale or Sharing of Your Personal Data: As defined by applicable laws, you have the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of your Personal Data.

• The Right to Object or Opt Out of Certain Types of Processing: This includes targeted advertising, direct marketing, and certain types of profiling and automated decision-making.

• The Right to Request the Restriction of Processing of Your Personal Data: You can request the restriction of processing of your Personal Data.

• The Right to Data Portability: This means you can request a copy of your Personal Data in an accessible format.

• The Right to Withdraw Your Consent: Under certain circumstances, you have the right to withdraw your consent.

• The Right to Lodge a Complaint: You can lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection supervisory authority. Where applicable, you can find contact information for your data protection supervisory authority on the European Data Protection Board’s website https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/about-edpb/members_en or through other publicly available sources.

 

If you are located in California and access the Website, our use of certain cookies could be considered a “sale” or “share” under the CCPA/CPRA. If you are a resident of California, Virginia, Colorado, or Connecticut, you may opt out of the use of cookies and other technologies for targeted advertising purposes by navigating to the “Your Privacy Choices” or “Cookie Settings” link in the footer of the Website or clicking through the option in the banner that appears when you first visit our website to opt out of targeting cookies. In addition to opting out with MHA, there are other mechanisms generally available by advertising groups for consumers to opt out of interest-based advertising from a large number of advertising providers at once, including but not limited to, using the following links https://optout.networkadvertising.org/ and https://www.aboutads.info/choices. Please note that these mechanisms are not managed by MHA and MHA is not an advertising provider.

 

To the extent any of the above rights are applicable, you may exercise your rights by contacting us via email. We will take steps to verify your identity before processing certain requests. We will not fulfill your request unless you have provided sufficient information for us to reasonably verify you are the individual about whom we collected Personal Data. If you have an Account with us, we will use our existing Account authentication practices to verify your identity. If you do not have an Account with us, we may request additional information about you to verify your identity. We will only use the Personal Data provided in the verification process to verify your identity or authority to make a request and to track and document request responses, unless you initially provided the information for another purpose.

 

You may be able to use an authorized agent to submit a rights request on your behalf. When we verify your agent’s request, we may verify both your and your agent’s identity and request a signed document from you that authorizes your agent to make the request on your behalf. To protect your Personal Data, we reserve the right to deny a request from an agent that does not submit proof that they have been authorized by you to act on their behalf.

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Certain laws may give you a right to appeal any denials of your request to exercise your rights. If we deny your request and you would like to submit an appeal, please contact us via email.

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Note on Third-Party Links

Our Website may feature links to websites and applications owned and operated by third parties. In accordance with your opt-out or consent preferences, we may also engage third-party advertisers, ad networks, and other entities involved in advertising, marketing, and promotion, to deliver advertisements on our Website. Please note that the access and usage of such linked websites and applications are not governed by this Notice, but are instead regulated by the privacy policies of those third parties. We do not endorse these parties, their content, or any products and services they provide, and we bear no responsibility for the information practices of such third-party websites or applications.

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Security and Storage of Information

Inherent to the nature of communication and information processing technology, there is no absolute guarantee that Personal Data will be completely secure from access, modification, or destruction due to a breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards. However, MHA places a high priority on the security of your Personal Data. We are committed to protecting the Personal Data you provide from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, or disclosure, and we have implemented reasonable measures to safeguard the Personal Data we collect.

 

It is also crucial for you to take measures to protect against unauthorized access to your device and account. This can be achieved by, among other things, selecting a unique and complex password that is not known or easily guessed by others, and keeping your login and password confidential. We are not liable for any lost, stolen, or compromised passwords or for any activity on your account via unauthorized password activity.

 

We retain the Personal Data we collect for a duration that is reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes for which the data was collected, to carry out our contractual and legal obligations (including any exemptions or exceptions contemplated by law), and for any applicable statute of limitations periods for the purposes of initiating and defending claims.

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Members Outside the USA

Our application and database servers are situated in the United States. If you are an individual residing in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Canada, or another jurisdiction outside of the United States with laws and regulations governing Personal Data collection, use, and disclosure that differ from United States laws, please note that the information we collect (including through the use of methods such as Cookies and other web technologies) will be processed and stored in the United States or in other countries where we or our third-party Service Providers operate. By submitting your Personal Data to MHA and using MHA websites, you expressly consent to have your Personal Data transferred to, processed, and stored in the United States or another jurisdiction, which may not provide the same level of privacy protection as those in the country where you reside or are a citizen.

 

In relation to the operation of its websites, MHA may transfer your Personal Data to various locations, which may include locations both inside and outside of the European Economic Area. We rely on Standard Contractual Clauses and the UK Addendum to legally transfer Personal Data submitted relating to individuals in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland.

 

As needed, MHA will be appointing representatives in the European Economic Area and in the United Kingdom in accordance with the applicable requirements in the GDPR and UK GDPR. If you are located in these jurisdictions, you can contact our representatives at any time with any questions you may have about data protection. Their contact details will be provided on this page.

 

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Dispute Resolution

Details regarding MHA’s dispute resolution process are available in the MH Alliance Group’s Terms of Use.

 

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Additional California Resident Privacy Disclosures

Under the provisions of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 and any subsequent amendments, including the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (collectively referred to as the “CCPA”), residents of California are entitled to additional disclosures about our data processing practices. These disclosures are applicable exclusively to Members, Viewers, and Invitees who reside in the State of California (“California Residents”). All terms utilized in this section bear the same meaning as when used in the CCPA. California Residents may also review our Notice at Collection for our Website here.

 

• Over the past 12 months, we have collected categories of Personal Data, which include identifiers, personal information categories listed in the California Membership Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)), commercial information, and internet or other similar network activity. The purposes for which we have collected Personal Data and the sources of that information are detailed in the above sections titled ‘Information we Collect’ and ‘How We Use Your Information’.

 

• In the preceding 12 months, we have disclosed Personal Data for a business purpose, as outlined in the above section ‘With Whom We May Share Your Information’.

 

• We may also sell or share information to the extent that our use of cookies and tracking technologies for targeted advertising is considered a “sale” under the CCPA/CPRA. Your rights to opt out are described in the above section ‘Your Rights and Choices’. In the preceding 12 months, we have sold or shared the following categories of Personal Data with our targeted advertising service providers and partners: identifiers and internet or other similar network activity.

 

• We do not knowingly sell the Personal Data of minors under the age of 16.

 

 

Response to Requests

For a comprehensive understanding of the rights you may possess as a resident of California, please refer to the ‘Your Rights and Choices’ section above. We strive to respond to requests from California Residents in as timely a manner as possible. In instances where delays exceed 45 days, we will provide you with a written explanation of the reason and the duration of the extension. If you hold an account with us, we may deliver our written response to that account. Any disclosures we offer will solely encompass the 12-month period preceding the receipt of a verifiable request from a California Resident. The response we furnish will elucidate the reasons we are unable to comply with a request, if applicable. We do not impose a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is deemed excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we ascertain that the request justifies a fee, we will elucidate the rationale behind that decision and provide you with a cost estimate prior to fulfilling your request.

 

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Shine the Light

This Privacy Notice outlines the manner in which we may disseminate your information, inclusive of marketing purposes. Residents of California are entitled to request and receive from us, once per calendar year, information regarding any of your Personal Data that has been shared with third parties for their independent direct marketing purposes. This includes the categories of information and the identities and addresses of those businesses with whom we have shared such information. For inquiries about this information, or any other questions pertaining to our privacy practices and adherence to California law, please reach out to us via email.

 

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Changes to this Notice

This Notice is up-to-date as of the Effective Date specified above. Modifications to this Notice may occur if there are substantial changes in the manner in which information is managed at MHA, or to provide clarity to our Notice or rectify typographical errors. Any such alterations will be posted on this page, hence we encourage you to periodically review this page for updates. Your continued usage of MHA following the implementation of these changes signifies your acceptance of the revised Notice.

 

Contacting Us

Should you have any inquiries or feedback regarding this Notice or any matters pertaining to privacy, we invite you to reach out to us via email. Alternatively, you are also welcome to correspond with us in writing at the following address:

 

Attn: Privacy Department

MH Alliance Group

11110 Bellaire Blvd, Suite #200, Houston, Texas, 77072, USA.

 

For EEA & UK Residents - please contact our EU Representative via email.